Documents for America's History, Volume II: Since 1865

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Designed for America's History, Seventh Edition, this primary-source reader offers a chorus of voices from the past to enrich the study of U.S. history. Document selections written by both celebrated historical figures and ordinary people demonstrate the diverse history of America while putting a human face on historical experience. A broad range of documents, from speeches and petitions to personal letters and diary entries, paints a vivid picture of the social and political lives of Americans, encouraging student engagement with the textbook material. Brief introductions place each document in historical context, and questions for analysis help link the individual primary sources to larger historical themes.

Melvin Yazawa is Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, where he has taught since 1984. He has been the recipient of a Presidential Lectureship, the Snead-Wertheim Lectureship, a Faculty Recognition Award, and the Graduate Students' Teaching Award. A specialist on the American Revolution and the early Republic, he has written Representative Government and the Revolution: The Maryland Constitutional Crisis of 1789 (1975); From Colonies to Commonwealth: Familial Ideology and the Beginnings of the American Republic (1985); The Diary and Life of Samuel Sewall (1998); and numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is currently working on a book on the politics of union and disunion in America, 1776-1815. Kevin J. Fernlund is Professor of History and Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the Executive Director of the Western History Association, and a Fulbright Scholar. He is the author of the biographies Lyndon B. Johnson and Modern America (2009) and William Henry Holmes and the Rediscovery of the American West (2000), as well as editor of The Cold War American West, 1945 to 1989 (1998). His research and teaching interests include the American West and Big History. Fernlund has edited the fifth, sixth, and seventh editions of Bedford/St. Martin's Selected Historical Documents to Accompany America's History, Volume 2: Since 1865.

Part VI: The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1929-1972Chapter 23. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939The Early Years of the Depression, 1929-1932 23-1 Herbert Hoover's Plan (1931) 23-2 John T. McCutcheon, A Wise Economist Asks a Question (1931) 23-3 Hard Times and Hoovervilles (1930, 1932, 1941) 23-4 Meridel Le Sueur, Women on the Breadlines (1932)The New Deal Arrives, 1933-1935 23-5 Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933) 23-6 Rexford G. Tugwell, Design of Government (1933) 23-7 John Maynard Keynes, An Open Letter to President Roosevelt (1933) 23-8 Eleanor Roosevelt, The State's Responsibility for Fair Working Conditions (1933) 23-9 Huey P. Long, The Long Plan (1933)The Second New Deal and the Redefining of Liberalism, 1935-1938 23-10 Republican and Democratic National Platforms (1936) 23-11 Norman Thomas, What Was the New Deal? (1936)The New Deal's Impact on Society 23-12 Mary Heaton Vorse, The Sit-Down Strike at General Motors (1937) 23-13 Richard Wright, Communism in the 1930s (1944) 23-14 The Federal Antilynching Bills (1938) 23-15 Lorena Hickok, Field Report on Arizona to Harry L. Hopkins (1934) 23-16 Paul B. Sears, Deserts on the March (1937)Chapter 24. The World at War, 1937-1945 The Road to War 24-1 Gerald P. Nye, The Profits of War and Preparedness (1934) 24-2 C. D. Batchelor, The Reluctance to Go to War (1936) 24-3 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat on the Great Arsenal of Democracy (1940) 24-4 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Four Freedoms Speech (1941)Organizing for Victory 24-5 Norma Yerger Queen, Women Working at the Home Front (1944) 24-6 Mother, When Will You Stay Home Again? (1944) 24-7 Wartime Posters: The Japanese and Venereal Disease as Enemies (c. 1944)Life on the Home Front 24-8 Remembering the War Years on the Home Front (1984) 24-9 Executive Order 9066 to Prescribe Military Areas (1942)Fighting and Winning the War 24-10 Ernie Pyle, Street Fighting (1944) 24-11 William McConahey and Dorothy Wahlstrom, Remembering the Holocaust (1945) 24-12 Albert Einstein, Letter to President Roosevelt (1939) 24-13 Henry L. Stimson, Draft of Press Release Announcing the Use of the Atomic Bomb (1945)

Chapter 25. Cold War America, 1945-1963Containment in a Divided World 25-1 Nikolai Novikov, Telegram: A Soviet View of U.S. Foreign Policy (1946) 25-2 George F. Kennan, Containment Policy (1947) 25-3 NSC-68 (1950)Cold War Liberalism 25-4 Lyndon B. Johnson, The American West: America's Answer to Russia (1950) 25-5 Joseph R. McCarthy, Communists in the U.S. Government (1950)Containment in the Postcolonial World 25-6 Nikita Krushchev, Peaceful Coexistence (1956) 25-7 John Foster Dulles, Cold War Foreign Policy (1958) 25-8 Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address (1961) Chapter 26. The Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963Economy: From Recovery to Dominance 26-1 Henry R. Luce, The Dangerous Age of Abundance (1959) 26-2 Herbert Block, “Let's See, Now-Where Can We Raise More Taxes?”A Suburban Nation 26-3 Green Acres (1950) 26-4 George M. Humphrey, The Interstate Highway System (1955) 26-5 Neil Morgan, The Footloose Migration (1961) 26-6 Herbert Gans, Boston's West Enders (1962) 26-7 What Does Chicago's Renewal Program Mean? (1963) 26-8 Carey McWilliams, North From Mexico (1949)Gender, Sex, and Family in the Era of Containment 26-9 Benjamin Spock, How Do You Make Him Leave Certain Things Alone? (1946) 26-10 Help Wanted-Women (1957) Chapter 27. Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973The Emerging Civil Rights Struggle: 1941-1957 27-1 Harry S. Truman, Order to Desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces (1948) 27-2 Civil Rights and the National Party Platforms (1948) 27-3 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)Forging a Protest Movement: 1955-1966 27-4 Rosa Parks, Describing My Arrest (1955) 27-5 The Southern Manifesto (1956) 27-6 Lyndon B. Johnson, The Next and More Profound Stage of the Battle for Civil Rights (1965)Beyond Civil Rights: 1966-1973 27-7 Malcolm X and Yusef Iman, Black Nationalism (1964) 27-8 Inés Hernández, Para Teresa 27-9 DRUMS Committee of the Menominee, The Consequences of Termination for the Menominee of Wisconsin (1971) Chapter 28. Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1964-1972The Great Society: Liberalism at High Tide 28-1 Theodore H. White, The Television Debates (1960) 28-2 John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961) 28-3 Michael Harrington, The Other America (1962) 28-4 Lyndon B. Johnson, Address at the University of Michigan (1964) 28-5 National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)The War in Vietnam, 1963-1968 28-6 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) 28-7 Lyndon B. Johnson, Peace Without Conquest (1965) 28-8 Philip Caputo, The Splendid Little War (1965) 28-9 Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962) 28-10 Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (1968)Days of Rage, 1968-1972 28-11 John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival), Fortunate Son (1969) 28-12 An Advertisement for Birth Control (1967) 28-13 Gloria Steinem, Statement in Support of the Equal Rights Amendment (1970)Richard Nixon and the Politics of the Silent Majority 28-14 Richard Nixon, Vietnamization and the Nixon Doctrine (1969) 28-15 Richard Nixon, The Invasion of Cambodia (1970) 28-16 Dan Rather's Conversation with President Nixon (1972) 28-17 Watergate: Taped White House Conversations (1972) Part VII: Global Capitalism and the End of the American Century, 1973-2011Chapter 29. The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980An Era of Limits 29-1 Rachel Carson, And No Birds Sing (1962) 29-2 NASA Image, Earthrise (1966) 29-3 Gallup Polls, National Problems, 1950-1999Reform and Reaction in the 1970s 29-4 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Memorandum on Benign Neglect (1970) 29-5 Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman (1977)The American Family on Trial 29-6 William Serrin, Homestead (1970s) 29-7 Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A. (1984) Chapter 30. Conservative America Ascendant, 1973-1991The Rise of the New Right 30-1 Barry Goldwater, Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention (1964) 30-2 Jimmy Carter, The National Crisis of Confidence (1979) 30-3 Ronald Reagan, Acceptance Speech, Republican National Convention (1980)The Dawning of the Conservative Age 30-4 Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals (1983) 30-5 Creationism, the Public Schools, and the First Amendment, Edwards v. Aguillard (1987) 30-6 George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty (1981) 30-7 Jonathan Kozol, Rachel and Her Children (1988)The End of the Cold War 30-8 Ronald Reagan, Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall (1987) 30-9 Francis Fukuyama, The End of History (1989) 30-10 Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations? (1993) 30-11 George H. W. Bush, Iraqi Aggression in Kuwait (1990) 30-12 David Maraniss, University Students Reflect on the Gulf War (1991) Chapter 31. National Dilemmas in a Global Economy, 1989-2011America in the Global Economy 31-1 Anthony Giddens, Globalization (1999) 31-2 Bill Gates, Friction-Free Capitalism (1995)Politics and Partisanship in a New Era 31-3 William Jefferson Clinton, Speech at Mason Temple (1993) 31-4 Proposition 187 (1994) 31-5 Contract with America (1994)Into a New Century 31-6 Stephen Goldsmith, What Compassionate Conservatism Is--and Is Not (2000) 31-7 U.S. National Security Strategy (2002) 31-8 Osama bin Laden, The Two Towers of Lebanon (2004) 31-9 Barrack Obama, This Crisis Is Largely of Our Own Making (2009)